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Télécharger le livre :  Price Setting
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Price Setting


Truman F. Bewley


The prices of some products fluctuate dramatically, while others remain more constant. What accounts for these extreme differences? Renowned economist Truman F. Bewley investigates and elucidates this puzzling problem. Its crux, he argues, is that differentiated...

Parution : 2025-05-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 3
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Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 3


Ciaran Cronin , Jürgen Habermas


In the final volume of his history of philosophy, Jürgen Habermas offers a series of brilliant interpretations of the thinkers who set the agenda for contemporary philosophy.  Beginning with masterful readings of Hume and Kant, he traces the genealogy of their...

Parution : 2025-03-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Conflict Resolution
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Contemporary Conflict Resolution


Hugh Miall , Oliver Ramsbotham , Harmonie Toros , Tom Woodhouse


The indispensable guide to conflict resolution in a troubled world Conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding have never been more important as priorities on the global agenda.The wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and tensions between the major powers...

Parution : 2024-10-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Self in the West and East Asia
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The Self in the West and East Asia


Jin Li


From the fraught world of geopolitics to business and the academy, it’s more vital than ever that Westerners and East Asians understand how each other thinks. As Jin Li shows in this groundbreaking work, the differences run deep. Li explores the philosophical origins of...

Parution : 2024-08-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Interest in Disinterestedness
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The Interest in Disinterestedness


Pierre Bourdieu


A key feature of those who work for the state, in the legal system and in public services is that they claim to be putting their own personal interests aside and working in a disinterested fashion, for the public good. But is disinterested behaviour possible? Can law be...

Parution : 2024-07-04
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Télécharger le livre :  World Poverty and Human Rights
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World Poverty and Human Rights


Thomas W. Pogge


Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million...

Parution : 2023-02-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Introducing Anthropology
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Introducing Anthropology


Tomislav Maric , Laura Pountney


The perfect starting point for any student new to this fascinating subject, offering a serious yet accessible introduction to anthropology. Across a series of fourteen chapters, Introducing Anthropology addresses the different fields and approaches within anthropology,...

Parution : 2021-04-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Sociology
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Sociology


Anthony Giddens , Philip W. Sutton


Over a million copies sold worldwideThe indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we lead. This thoroughly revised and updated ninth edition remains unrivalled in its vibrant, engaging and authoritative introduction to sociology. The authors...

Parution : 2021-03-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Crisis and Inequality
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Crisis and Inequality


Mattias Vermeiren


Spiralling inequality since the 1970s and the global financial crisis of 2008 have been the two most important challenges to democratic capitalism since the Great Depression. To understand the political economy of contemporary Europe and America we must, therefore, put...

Parution : 2021-02-11
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Télécharger le livre :  An Introduction to Sociology
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An Introduction to Sociology


Ken Browne


This fifth edition of An Introduction to Sociology provides an accessible and engaging introduction to sociology, without oversimplifying or passing over the important and exciting insights sociology has to offer.   Building on the book's existing achievements, Ken...

Parution : 2019-12-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Lineages of Modernity
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Lineages of Modernity


Emmanuel Todd


In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that was taken for granted a decade or two ago is being questioned, and there is a widespread urge to try and understand how we reached our present...

Parution : 2019-06-10
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Télécharger le livre :  On the State
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On the State


Pierre Bourdieu


What is the nature of the modern state? How did it come into being and what are the characteristics of this distinctive field of power that has come to play such a central role in the shaping of all spheres of social, political and economic life? In this major work...

Parution : 2018-05-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Suffering of the Immigrant
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The Suffering of the Immigrant


Abdelmalek Sayad


This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader’s understanding of the issues surrounding immigration. Sayad’s book will be widely used in courses on race, ethnicity, immigration and identity in...

Parution : 2018-03-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Barthes
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Barthes


Tiphaine Samoyault


Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a central figure in the thought of his time, but he was also something of an outsider. His father died in the First World War, he enjoyed his mother’s unfailing love, he spent long years in the sanatorium, and he was aware of his...

Parution : 2017-01-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Models of Democracy
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Models of Democracy


David Held


The first two editions of Models of Democracy have proven immensely popular among students and specialists worldwide. In a succinct and far-reaching analysis, David Held provides an introduction to central accounts of democracy from classical Greece to the present and a...

Parution : 2016-08-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Heritage of Our Times
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The Heritage of Our Times


Ernst Bloch


Heritage of Our Times is a brilliant examination of modern culture and its legacy by one of the most important and deeply influential thinkers of the 20th century. Bloch argues that the key elements of a genuine cultural tradition are not just to be found in the...

Parution : 2015-10-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Farewell to the World
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Farewell to the World


Marzio Barbagli , Lucinda Byatt


What drives a person to take his or her own life? Why would an individual be willing to strap a bomb to himself and walk into a crowded marketplace, blowing himself up at the same time as he kills and maims the people around him? Does suicide or ‘voluntary death’ have...

Parution : 2015-10-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Decarceration
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Decarceration


Andrew T. Scull


Parution : 2014-11-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Current of Music
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Current of Music


Theodor W. Adorno , Robert Hullot-Kentor


Fleeing the Nazis, Theodor W. Adorno lived in New York City as a refugee from 1938 until 1941. During these years, he was intensively involved in a study of how the recently developed techniques for the nation-wide transmission of music over radio were transforming the...

Parution : 2014-10-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Power in the Global Age
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Power in the Global Age


Ulrich Beck


This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the changing nature of power...

Parution : 2014-10-15
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